I have an app in which i want to share specific data to social media like facebook,twitter,pinterest etc once the user clicks on the social icon. I have already used react native link which sends me to the pages of these platforms. But i want to share data to these once clicked. I have done this for whatsapp which is like this:

    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => {
                let url = 'whatsapp://send?text=${hello}&phone=${01753362960}';
                Linking.openURL(url).then((data) => {
                  console.log('open whatsapp', data)
                }).catch(() => {
                  console.log('App not installed')
                });
              }} >
            <Icon name='logo-whatsapp' style={{color: '#395894', fontSize: 30, marginRight: 10}}/>
     </TouchableOpacity>

I have an app in which i want to share specific data to social media like facebook,twitter,pinterest etc once the user clicks on the social icon. I have already used react native link which sends me to the pages of these platforms. But i want to share data to these once clicked. I have done this for whatsapp which is like this:

    <TouchableOpacity onPress={() => {
                let url = 'whatsapp://send?text=${hello}&phone=${01753362960}';
                Linking.openURL(url).then((data) => {
                  console.log('open whatsapp', data)
                }).catch(() => {
                  console.log('App not installed')
                });
              }} >
            <Icon name='logo-whatsapp' style={{color: '#395894', fontSize: 30, marginRight: 10}}/>
     </TouchableOpacity>

 let url = 'twitter://send?text=hello this is checked'

How can i do this for other social media platforms?

• javascript
• reactjs
• react-native

• Have you tried this? Why do you think that twitter has /send page? – TeaNyan Commented Jan 29, 2019 at 10:52

3 Answers 3

For twitter please use this,

let url = 'twitter://post?message=${yourMsg}'

I would do it this way: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/share

This way the user can chose what app he wants to share to based on apps installed on users device

react-native-share is a good package to use for making some stuff share at different platforms. Back in early 2019 this package wasn't this much mature, but now it's really usefull.

https://github./react-native-munity/react-native-share

Have a look at here. Thanks.